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Agustina Bazterrica

Tender is the Flesh

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‘A thrilling dystopia that everyone should read’ DAZED
‘A hideous, bold, unforgettable vision of the future’ i-D MAGAZINE
‘A gut-churning, brilliantly realised novel’ DAILY MAIL

If everyone was eating human meat, would you?
Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans — only no one calls them that. He works with numbers, consignments, processing. One day, he's given a specimen of the finest quality. He leaves her tied up in an outhouse, a problem to be disposed of later.
But she haunts Marcos. Her trembling body, and watchful gaze, seem to understand. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost — and what might still be saved…
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183 printed pages
Copyright owner
Bookwire
Original publication
2020
Publication year
2020
Publisher
Pushkin Press
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  • Jᜀᜈ᜔ᜈshared an impressionlast year
    💀Spooky

    I think I died at the last page

  • Paulinashared an impression2 years ago
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    🎯Worthwhile

    La manera en la que nombramos a las cosas importa. Llamar a un animal mascota y a otro carne, alivia la culpa y permite que las personas continúen consumiendo animales, mientras estiman a su mascota y hasta les ven como parte de su familia. A la familia no se le mata para consumir su cadáver.
    ¿Qué pasa cuando se hace lo mismo con algunos humanos? Separase de ellos mediante no reconocerles como iguales.
    ¿Si ya no existieran los animales sería normal comer carne de otros humanos? ¿Por qué no acudir a otras alternativas?

    En conclusión, go vegan.

  • marisolggeneticashared an impression3 months ago
    👍Worth reading

Quotes

  • Lunahas quotedlast month
    Owning slaves is prohibited. He remembers the allegations against a family that was later prosecuted for keeping ten female slaves in a clandestine workshop. They were branded. The family had bought them from a breeding centre and trained them. They’d all been taken to the Municipal Slaughterhouse. The females and the family became special meat. The press reported on the case for weeks. He remembers there was a sentence that everyone repeated, horrified: “Slavery is barbaric.”
  • Lunahas quotedlast month
    He doesn’t clarify that she can order online.
  • Lunahas quotedlast month
    “Today I’m the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle.”

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